To make political points, Rush Limbaugh is now willing to make fun of the infirm. Yeah, Michael J. Fox is just faking his Parkinson’s. Just like Limbaugh is impersonating a human being. What’s next? Wounded soldiers who bleed are unpatriotic because it hurts morale and helps opponents of the Bush Administration?
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My personal television viewing tends to be more haphazard than regimented. Rather than tune in for specific shows, I’m more likely to surf, then get sucked into something entirely unexpected. My wife coined the perfect phrase for the practice: “Entering the Vortex.” Usually it’s a bad movie (“Jarhead”) or a flick I’ve seen 37 times […]
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I know this is a tortured analogy, but it’s stuck in my head. It relates the plight of the New York Mets going into Game 7 tonight with no credible starting pitching, and maybe the greatest inconsistency from television’s past. On the old TV show, Superman would put his hands on hips, thrust out his chest […]
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In a move unrelated to the sentencing of Christopher Porco being pushed back to Dec. 12, the CBS newsmagazine “48 Hours Mystery” has moved its segment on the case from Oct. 28 to Nov. 4. Both decisions came out Tuesday. This means the news magazine’s report, featuring an exclusive jailhouse interview with the Delmar man convicted […]
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